Why Are We Always Living In The Future? - Samuel Beckett on The Game of Waiting

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A video essay on the phenomenon of waiting, an analysis of his play: Waiting For Godot, and how Beckett can help us with a lack of purpose in our lives
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Chapters:
Introduction: 00:00
Sponsor: 02:34
1: The Play: 04:39
2: Who Is Godot? : 6:08
3: Why Are We Constantly Waiting? : 07:57
4: Overcoming The Absurd: 12:52
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As someone who's been waiting 2+ hours for my roomate to return so I can eat the leftovers in the fridge, this is just what I needed to hear. I don't need to wait and now I am not only happy, but full of pizza 😌

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Everyone who is also waiting for someone or something to happen, stay strong soldiers.

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[@ambreenali.]

'None of the characters in Waiting for Godot have a meaningful purpose. Waiting for Godot might seem to give Vladimir and Estragon a purpose, but the fact that Godot never arrives renders their waiting meaningless' I wrote a paper on this play once and it was really depressing, you start questioning your entire existence after reading this play. You covered this topic really well, loved it! ❤️

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"Treat these periods of waiting with a healthier mindset." Thank you I needed that.

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The video I didn't know I needed. I truly never understood why I felt so depressed from too much freedom when I was always waiting for it. And maybe this explains that getting everything we've ever wanted makes us feel empty.

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Waiting for love.... waiting for love.... you know, that has been the thing I waited for the most over the last ten years (I'm almost 19): LOVE. To fall in love with someone. Well, I have never been in a romantic relationship, and as I was the "freak" of the classroom during the first half of my teenage years, I somehow, without noticing, I figured out the perfect way to not feel anguished by the wait of something as abstract as falling in love: have habits. This video reminded me of the value of habits I've been adding to my life, and further reinforced my connection with them as well as with time for myself (which is most of my time). Thanks to the power of habits (reading, writing, filmmaking, working out and painting) I feel like the thing I have waited for will eventually arrive, it's just that it will when I least expect it to. R.C. Waldun, cheers for this nice video. I wish the best of luck for your studies. (Or, as the french say to wish luck: MERDE!)

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OMG! You're 19 and have been waiting for love for 10 years??? Give yourself a break man! Live your single life to the fullest, then you will find love without waiting for it.

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I've grappled with this idea for a while, and after university, it took me longer than a year to really get back to the rhythms of habit. Things are starting to feel more cohesive yet again. As for the frustration we experience whenever we're met by the unexpected, or the absurd, I like to use the Stoic practice of negative visualization to counteract it. It really helps! On a side note, grammarly saved my ass as well during my final semester in uni haha. So many essay deadlines!

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Thank you so much for this video! I am grateful for this little pocket of time and space, the in between of point A and B, that little moment filled with mundane little things such as reading a book, drinking a glass of water, going in for a walk, and/or etc. Maybe waiting is just another point of view on the appreciation of the journey more than the destination. The knowing that you already have what you’re waiting for so what’s left is to just be.

[@sandaruravihari8499]

I read the play a few months back. I really enjoyed it. I have pondered over the idea of us humans waiting. I sure wait for the best time to do things and it's painful. Waiting for something great to happen and once something as such has come to pass I wait for the next best thing to happen. I guess that's what is life is about

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THANK YOU!! I’ve always had this weird thing where too much free time during vacations gave me such existential depression and anxiety about death. But this video gives me hope. It’s ok to have nothing to do. I think capatlism really drove forth the narrative of “monetizing your time” with the ideal being productivity 24/7. But not only is that unhealthy and impossible, it literally defies the purpose of freedom.

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Absolutely incredible. Thank you so so much. You have no idea how much sense you made... Perfect sense

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"To love is so short, to wait is so long." -Pablo Neruda

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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, before we can appreciate the enjoyments of life. "Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God deigns to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,--- "Wait and hope." -Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo

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Amazing essay per usual! This time was something pretty relatable as I always feel like life is a constant “chasing for something” and when you’re not, it’s just not a good thing. A great reminder that you don’t have to constantly chase for something and can start learning to face the intervals between moments instead and live in the now.

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“Enough, I said to myself. Just go. When you’re on your deathbed you’re gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting for other people.” -David Wong

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Dzogchen meditation in particular seems to help with removing that tendency to wait and anticipate good "things" coming. It really makes you find peace with: "This Is It"

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Fantastic! Thank you! I really enjoy hearing your smart thoughts about a book. Waiting is indeed painful. What keeps me going, is hope, and doing the best I can while hoping, and trusting in God.

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esse est percipi - thanks for the video, I'm actually writing my final paper for uni on Endgame, have been thinking about all of this almost a worrying amount... but it is comforting

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[@marxist9535]

Isn't it exactly that which is the essence that pierces through all of Beckett's work: Godot, Happy Days, Endgame. The inability or unwillingness to confront and to face the truth, to face the silence. There is never silence in Beckett, always talking (Too much talking). There is nothing interesting about the ''Concept of waiting'' it is merely the set-up which serves as the gilt frame the artist works within. We have a series of characters they are all pretentious, horrible people - Why do they not move? Why are they stuck, because they ''Cannot''. Beckett is woven into the modern tragedy, his plays are tragedies - They express our inability to change or to move forward or to confess or to confront - The exact core that defines our postmodern society. Everything is twisted, everything is not as it seems - Dormant and demystified and devoid of hope for future civilization.

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Have you considered applying Derrida to Beckett? I have a feeling that his concept of 'hauntology' may be relevant... ;) ;)

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I did my graduation paper on the hauntology of Godot. ;)

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If you’re interested in thinking more about habit I recommend looking into John Dewey’s work. American philosophy is so neglected, and he’s one of the greats!

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We feel this way because we were designed and created for communion with God. That's found through repentance and trust in Jesus Christ, getting to know Him through His Word, and looking forward to being with Him forever when He returns to judge this world. The things of this world never fully or permanently satisfy, because we were not created for this world. Only Jesus Christ will satisfy. He is for whom we ultimately wait. Psalm 39:7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you."

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We're all waiting for our inevitable death what else is there.

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If we are waiting on worldly things to be the thing that finally gives us rest, we will never be satisfied and has to chase a new desire. But Christ can give us an eternal rest that won't be disturbed by anything. Once we test life with Jesus, it will be the final thing we will want to test and pursue. John 4 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

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Nothing new here, no offense, read Schopenhauer.

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I'm TIRED OF WAITING for my life to get BETTER. All my life IS is EMPTYNESS and IMPOSSIBLE OBSTICALES